Letters to the editor

Published: May 8, 2012 4:00AM

Keep the village strong

Editor:

I have been a Millersburg resident for over 40 years, and I am disappointed to see how people are acting in this community over the income tax request. For 30 years the village has not asked for money despite the continued rise in cost of the services they provide to help make this a beautiful and great town to live in.

So many people want to point the finger at the mayor and council and call them thieves and accuse them of improper spending and not doing things to save money.

First of all let's get one thing straight the only reason the village is asking for more money is because the state pulled the rug out from underneath the village with the quick elimination of state funding. So, if you want to point the finger then point it in the right direction and that is to Columbus and our state government.

A lot of people are also upset over the new fees residents are going to have to pay, and I don't blame them. I don't want to have to pay these fees either. However, to accuse the mayor and council of being liars and say things like the village is being greedy and just wants more money is ridiculous.

Take a moment and think about it. The mayor and all the council members live in town just like you and me. So, they are going to have to pay these same fees just like you and me.

Getting rid of the police department and dispatch is ludicrous. Remember, just because you have never had dealings with the police department doesn't mean they are not important and the services they provide are not important.

Did you read a recent article in The Daily Record about the driver who fell asleep and caused extensive damage to businesses along West Jackson Street? Now, I wonder how many dealings the business owners had previously with the police department, but as the article read they were very thankful for the help they received from the police department.

Let's come together as a community and pass that income tax and keep this town the great town it has been for so many years and a place where people want to live because it is safe and a beautiful town.

Elmer Brown

Millersburg

Abortion is the devil's work

Editor:

Do you believe in the sanctity of life? I assure you Obama and Holden, along with the ACLU and Planned Parenthood do not. "When Obama was an Illinois state senator, he killed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. As a U.S. senator he was outraged when our Supreme Court upheld partial-birth abortion law.

Obama's current administration continues its extreme radical abortion agenda. They could care less about protecting helpless unborn babies. As I write in one of my books, "abortion is murder." It is the greatest cancer that continues to eat away at the soul of America.

From the beginning of baby killing back in 1939, the goal was to eliminate undesirables." Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood who was a eugenicist, was the leader to legalize abortion. Many others agreed with her.

Sanger wrote, "the most merciful thing a large family does is kill infant members." In "Birth Control Review" by Sanger, she advocated creating farms to segregate "unfit people to safeguard citizens from heredity traits." Peter Singer, a professor at Princeton University, also supports killing babies and he is teaching our young adults.

Abortion must stop if we are to save our nation. Abortion destroys mothers and families. Pray for a change of heart from our leaders. As a nation we cannot support continued baby killing. Many studios indicate 55-70 percent of our citizens oppose abortion.

For those of us who love America and want to save it, we must pray for sanity from our leaders. We must never accept abortion. "For the past 39 years, an average of one unborn child has been killed every 20 seconds; a total of 50 million deaths of innocent humans."